Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. No matter how quickly he reads, he will not be better off if, as is too often true, he does not know what he is looking for and does not know when he has found it.

2. The ordering of knowledge has changed with the centuries. All knowledge was once ordered in relation to the seven liberal arts— grammar, rhetoric, and logic, the trivium; arithmetic, geometry astronomy, and music, the quadrivium. Medieval encyclopedias reflected this arrangement. Since the universities were arranged according to the same system, and students studied according to it also, the arrangement was useful in education.[How to Read a Book (1972), P. 180]